Michael Ströder writes:
Is that really a problem? How often is "occasionally"?
Don't know, and don't know.
To me 2.5 MB does not sound so much to justify thinking about changing the client app in such a network- and data-specific way.
OK, good. I've no experience with that kind of search result sizes myself. Though the client side change is just a config directive so far. getgrent() with nss_ldap. Others may come later.
Does it block other operations from different apps?
Don't know yet, that's what I was wondering about. Like I said I imagine it can, if the threads get blocked. We've just multiplied the server-side sizelimit with 200 to accomodate the change:-( So it's a jump in what degree the server is at the mercy of the clients.